Our View

Although we’re pretty sure Hank Williams wasn’t the first guy to come up with the phrase “Mind Your Own Business,” he wrote a mighty fine song about it and it seems especially appropriate lately.
It comes as somewhat of a shock, although no surprise at all, that a local middle school principal has come under scrutiny and some criticism for a Christian-based assembly held at his school.

There can be no doubt that spirituality plays a huge role in our day-to-day lives here in Pageland and the surrounding area. Just look at the number of churches and houses of worship are in Chesterfield County. They number in the hundreds.

It was great to see so many animal advocates turn out at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Chesterfield County Council. People in Chesterfield County and many from as far away places as New York attended the meeting to voice their concerns over the conditions at the county animal shelter and about the alleged dog shooting incident that occurred there in March.
The heart of the matter is that nearly everyone who spoke did so advocating spay and neuter laws that would help control the animal population and help quell the problem at its source.

 It’s wrong to rush to judgment until all the facts are in, so we’re not going to. But the allegations that Chesterfield County employees took dogs from the animal shelter to the landfill across the street, gunned them down and buried their carcasses is beyond disturbing, if true.